Painting and whitewashing machine



(No Model.)

- O. P. LANCASTER.

PAINTING AND WHITEWASHING MACHINE.

No. 352,332. Patented Nov. 9, 1886.

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CHARLES PHILLIP LANCASTER, or FAIRMOUNT, INDIANA.

PAINTING AND WHITEWASHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,332, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed August 3, 18:6. Serial No. 209,878. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known thatI, CHARLEs PHILLIP LAN- oAsTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fairmount, in the county of Grant and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Painting and Whitewashing, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to animproved device for applying paint, whitewash, or other substances of like nature to walls, ceilings, roofs, or other surfaces; and it has for its objects to provide for the more convenient application ofsuch substances without waste or injury to surrounding objects, as more fully hereinafter specified. These objects I attain by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a top view of my improved device with a portion of the same broken away'; Fig. 2,, a side elevation of the device, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 4 represents a View of a de.- tached portion of the belt, showing the means of securing the brushes thereto.

The letter A indicates a reservoir or receptacle for the paint, whitewash, or other substance to be applied, which is provided with a tube, B, which serves the double purpose of filling the receptacle and as a socket for the handle of the device. The forward wall ofthe receptacle is curved, as indicated, and is provided with a transverse slot, 0, through which the paint,whitewash, or other substance passes to the brushes.

D indicates a slide, located on the inside of the receptacle close up to the front wall thereof, and adapted to be moved over the slot to a greater or less extent, so as to regulate the escape of the paint,whitewash,or other substance to the brushes,or cut it off therefrom entirely.

The sides of the receptacle are provided with forwardly projecting wings E, which have bearings at their forward ends for the journals of a roller, F, which is located between the rear ends of aframe,G. The sides of the saidframe taper from the rear to the front, and at the front, between said sides, is journaled a small roller, H. The frame is braced by means of a cross-bar, I, which serves also to hold the sides together.

The letter K indicates a belt of suitable ma-' terial, which extends around the rollers F and H, and which is provided with a series of 5 transverse brushes, M, for applying the paint or whitewash, as more fully hereinafter explained. I

The frame, at opposite sides, is provided with a series of apertures, N into which the ends of the springs P, secured on opposite sides of the receptacle and playing through openings in the wings, are adapted to engage so as to adjust the frame at any desired angle with respect to the receptacle, according to the nature and position of the work. One side of the frame G, about midway between its ends, is provided with a series of threaded apertures, R, in which may be secured the threaded end of the screw-bolt S,which carries aplain wheel, T, and a cog-wheel, U, the said wheels being loosely mounted, so as to turn thereon. The opposite side of the frame is provided with apertures similarly located, through which passes a screw-bolt, V, which is confined by means of a screw-nut,W. The said screw-bolt has loosely mounted upon it a plain wheel, X, of the same diameter as the wheel T.

Y indicates a cog-wheel,which is mounted upon the shaft of the roller F, and is secured 8o rigidly thereto, so as to carry it with it and drive the belt.-

Z indicates a frame,which is pivoted to the shaft of the roller F, and through which the screw-boltS, carrying the cog-wheel U, passes, the said frame serving asa support for the plain wheel and the cog-wheel before mentioned.

In order to provide for the adjustment of the slide D,previously mentioned,it is mounted upon a rod, A, passing through stuffing-boxes 0 B, by means of which it may be moved back and forth.

Thebrushes may be of any suitable mate rial, and may be secured in any convenient manner to the belt; but they are preferably 5 secured between metallic clamps or cleats O, which are riveted or otherwise secured to the belt.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The receptacle being properly filled with the rco paint, whitewash, or other material through thefilling-tube,the handle is placed in position.

The frame G is then adjusted at the proper angle for the work. The wheels T X are then adjusted so as to permit the brushes to bear with more or less force upon the surfaceto be coated, when the device is ready for use. The paint or wash is then applied by running the device backward or forward over the surface.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In adeviceforapplyingpaint,whitewash,

or other substances to surfaces, the combination of a receptacle having a slot for the emission of the paint or wash, the movable frame having rollers carrying a moving belt provided with brushes, and the mechanism for driving the belt to apply thepaint or wash, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the receptacle or reservoir,of the tube secured to the same, and serving. for filling and asa socket for the handle, substantially as specified.

3. The combinatiomwith the receptacle hav-.

ing a curved slotted front, of the regulatingslide and its rod passing through stuffingboxes in the walls of said receptacle. substant'all y as and for the purposes set forth. I

4. The combination,with the receptacle and its wings, of the frame pivoted between said wingsand carrying the belt rollers and the frame, of the intergearing cog-wheel mounted on the shaft of the driving-roller of the belt,

substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

7. The combination, with the shaft of the driving-rollers and the driving coggearing. of the frame pivoted to said shaft, and forming a support for the driving gearing, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein. presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES PHILLIP LANCASTER.

Witnesses:

J. B. SMITHSON, C. D. OVEMAN. 

